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Explore the choices we make in a world we've changed. We travel the country — from ranches in Oregon to churches in Colorado — to tell you stories about people making personal choices in the face of environmental change.

Climate change isn’t just contributing to drought, super-storms, sea level rise and flooding. It’s also making it harder for many people to breathe, like 13-year-old Estefany Velasquez. Her family faced a tough choice because of her asthma.

Ty Stubblefield self-identifies as a “red blooded conservative,” but he’s also an avid hunter who is frustrated with the Republican party’s efforts to transfer public lands out of federal control. So, he’s fighting back.

Scientists believe that for the planet to continue to safely support life, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere should be kept as close to 350 parts per million as possible. We haven’t seen that level since the late 1980s - more than a decade before Victoria Barrett was born.

Sally Jewell is back home in the Pacific Northwest after a tour of duty as the Secretary of the Interior under President Barack Obama.

She'll sit down with terrestrial host Ashley Ahearn to talk about her time in the Obama Administration, which included the fight at Standing Rock over Native American rights, the Bundy occupation of the Malheur Widlife Refuge and other hot topics.

It’s a radical idea — that protest as we know it is broken. And a lot of people disagreed with Micah White when he first started talking about it, but he believes it’s time for activists to try something else.

When I first heard the term eco-anxiety — a chronic fear of environmental doom — I brushed it off. It seemed like something for people who sit on yoga mats and worry about how the world is going to end because we’re not recycling enough.

A new podcast from KUOW explores the choices we make in a world we have changed. Host Ashley Ahearn travels the country — from ranches in Oregon to churches in Colorado — to bring listeners stories about people making choices in the face of environmental change. Debuts May 2, 2017.